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Anaximander, the sixth-century BCE philosopher of Miletus, is often credited as being the instigator of both science and philosophy. The first recorded philosopher to posit the idea of the boundless cosmos, he was also the first to attempt to explain the origins of the world and humankind in rational terms. Anaximander's philosophy encompasses theories of justice, cosmogony, geometry, cosmology, zoology and meteorology.
Anaximander: A Re-assessment draws together these wide-ranging threads into a single, coherent picture of the man, his worldview and his legacy to the history of thought. Arguing that Anaximander's statements are both apodeictic and based on observation of the world around him, Andrew Gregory examines how Anaximander's theories can all be construed in such a way that they are consistent with and supportive of each other. This includes the tenet that the philosophical elements of Anaximander's thought (his account of the apeiron, the extant fragment) can be harmonised to support his views on the natural world. The work further explores how these theories relate to early Greek thought and in particular conceptions of theogony and meterology in Hesiod and Homer.
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Gregory's Anaximander describes how the first great Greek cosmologist looks back to his poetic predecessors and how later thinkers, particularly Plato, look back to him. By emphasizing the stability, symmetry, and order of Anaximander's system and its integration of natural philosophical and theological principles, Gregory provides a stimulating and welcome contribution to the study of early Greek philosophy.
This book offers a persuasive attempt to show Anaximander as a systematic thinker whose coherent and far-reaching views on cosmology, astronomy, meteorology, and zoogony are based on observation and folk-knowledge. It gives thoughtful attention to those fragments of Anaximander which are frequently overlooked, while also showing the fruitfulness of making explicit the Homeric and Hesiodic background against which Anaximander writes. More generally, this book provides a careful discussion of the particular way in which a Presocratic thinker can be scientifically-minded and yet allow divinity an important place in his account of the world. * Barbara Sattler, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of St Andrews, UK *
ISBN: 9781472507792
ISBN-10: 1472507797
Series: Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs
Published: 25th February 2016
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 312
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY 3PL
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.39 x 15.6 x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.61
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